Category: Hymns and songs
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‘The veil is rent in Christ alone’
In Charles Wesley’s theologically rich hymn Tis Finished! The messiah dies, there’s a curious phrase: “The veil is rent in Christ alone”. Great hymn, but that line seems like gobbledegook. To my parents’ generation, the meaning might have been obvious because it’s actually based on a quotation from the Authorised Version of the bible. It…